It plays a bit like chess, but it has giant guns and isn't excruciatingly boring. However, to my surprise I’m absolutely enamoured by the combat here. Normally that would be enough to put me into a sleep deep enough that some might mistake it as a state of cryostasis. It is indeed true that half the time you play XCOM will be spent shuffling a squad of six gung-ho elite space warriors against the most evil scum the universe could throw at our lonely little planet. So trust me, read the review to the end before you dismiss it based on its mechanics, and then you'll see why many are saying it’s the most surprising hit of 2012.
Like you, I find the plodding pace and fiddly controls normally associated with the genre about as much fun as an alien anal probe, which is why the fact I can’t put XCOM down is so perplexing. I realise your disdain for turn-based shooters means you’re probably more interested in reading what the Big Brother household had for breakfast than this review of XCOM Enemy Unknown, but you’d be a fool to do so.
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